In July 1952, Peng Dehuai sent Zheng Weishan to the 20th Corps to replace Yang Chengwu, who had returned to China to recuperate, as the acting commander of the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army. As soon as this black and lean general arrived on the Korean battlefield, he found a big problem; at this time, the situation between our army and the US army in the eastern part of the Korean battlefield was like this, and our position was penetrated by the US army, and the battle line formed a concave shape, and the US position became a convex shape.
The protruding area is about 20 kilometers wide, 9 kilometers deep, and the terrain is also very high, and the US military is like inserting a nail into the front of our army's position, and in the weather with good visibility, the US army can condescend to see the depth of the 20 corps and the movement of the forward troops clearly, causing a great threat to our army.
For political and military reasons, our army did not immediately take down this position. According to the orders of the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, Zheng Weishan led the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army to carry out defensive operations and tactical counterattacks in the next year, and under the autumn offensive in 1952, Zheng Weishan annihilated tens of thousands of enemy troops in two months, fought very well, and seized more than 50 positions.
With the passage of time, the combat operations of the Jincheng counterattack also matured, and the volunteer headquarters prepared to launch a summer offensive in the summer of 1953. The main direction and task of attack were given to the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army, Zhi
The headquarters of the Wish Army also transferred the newly entered 54th Army and the 21st Army to the command of the 20th Corps, and at the same time transferred the 20th Regiment of the Seventh Artillery Division and the 29th Regiment of the 2nd Artillery Division of the Headquarters From the Ninth Corps to Zheng Weishan for command to strengthen the offensive strength of the 20th Corps.
In front of Zheng Weishan is this big nail protruding from the US army, the US army has placed two regiments of troops on the high ground in the front, and has also built a strong permanent fortification, our army is attacking from the back, and it is not easy to quickly take these high grounds defended by the heavy troops of the US army.
At that time, our army wanted to pull out the support points on the enemy's forward positions such as the 949.2 heights and the 883.7 highlands, but this distance was not close, and it took several hours to set off from the front of our army's positions to the enemy's positions.
Zheng Weishan repeatedly went to the forward position to survey the terrain, and finally he stared at the open land at the front of the 60th Army's position, which was covered with dense shrubs and weeds, extending to the foot of the enemy's 883.7 heights. In fact, Zheng Weishan is not the first time to find this place covered with dense vegetation, 1
In the spring of 953, when he inspected here, he said to Zhang Zuyu, commander of the 60th Army: "The 60th Army organizes special shooters to fight as soon as the enemy approaches, and specializes in hitting the enemy's sporadic personnel." "So the U.S. military didn't find this place."
One day in May 1953, Zheng Weishan held an operational meeting, attended by not only the leaders of the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army, but also the commander of the Third Corps, Xu Shiyou, deputy political commissar Du Yide, and Li Tianyou, Li Chengfang, and other generals who came to inspect the Korean front.
Zheng Weishan carefully analyzed the situation of the local enemy and us, and then put forward the plan he had repeatedly thought about. He said: I am prepared to use two corps (21st Army, 54th Army) as two wings of support, and two corps (60th Army, 67th Army) as the general reserve, to capture the positions of the two regiments on the enemy's front, namely, the 883.7 heights and the 949.2 highlands and the cross hill and the sedan position.
This point is distributed in the east and southeast of Jincheng, which is three points for the enemy to stabilize the defense of the Jincheng area, and attacking this point will help our army to develop in depth and expand the results of the battle.
Next, Zheng Weishan came up with a very bold idea, he decided to ambush 3500 volunteer officers and soldiers in the bush at the foot of the enemy's 883.7 heights. The reason why Zheng Weishan dared to take such a risk was because there were several favorable conditions at that time
First, there is an open field under the 949.2 highland and the 883.7 highland, the area is densely wooded and the surface vegetation is intact, and the second is that the 60th Army has two tunnels dug on the legs of the mountain under the 949.2 highland and the 883.7 highland, which can stockpile ammunition and the second echelon.
Of course, there is also a point, that is, it will have an unexpected effect, and the enemy will never think that our army will dare to do so.
After Zheng Weishan finished speaking, he said to everyone: "Now please give your opinions, and if there is a better plan, please also put forward it." At this time, there was silence in the hidden department of nearly 50 people, and everyone knew that in broad daylight, the large infiltration of more than 3,000 people was difficult to be undetected in modern warfare, and the US military also occupied air supremacy, in case this vegetation was burned, the consequences were unimaginable.
Zhang Zuyu, commander of the 60th Army, stood up first and said:
Support the corps's combat plan, resolutely carry out the order, and complete the task assigned by the corps to capture the 883.7 heights and 949.2 heights, and annihilate the two regiments.
As soon as Zhang Zuyu finished speaking, Qiu Wei, commander of the 67th Army, also stood up and said, resolutely demanding an attack on the Cross Mountain and completing the task of annihilating an enemy regiment. Before the end of the meeting,
Zheng Weishan said to the crowd: "I am determined, I am responsible for the mistake, I should kill my head and kill me." Zhang Zuyu, commander of the 60th Army, said: "I am jointly responsible for you." Zheng Weishan slapped the table and said, "Don't be responsible for you, you just have to hit you!" ”
After the battle plan was determined, Zheng Weishan invited the company cadres of the lurking personnel to the corps headquarters, and distributed the condolences brought by the motherland to them and let them bring them back to the soldiers in the company. One of the fighters who took part in the commando said: "
After receiving the candy handed to us by Commander Zheng, we weighed the weight of this task. ”
After that, Zheng Weishan and the officers and men of the 60th Army lurked together to study the lurking plan, such as how to solve the problem of eating and drinking water, what to do if someone can't help coughing, what to do with mosquito bites, what to do if someone is sleeping and snoring, and what to do if the enemy is close to this area. After everything was ready, Zheng Weishan sat down at the headquarters of the 60th Army and asked every detail again.
On the evening of June 9, 1953, Zheng Weishan came to the command post opened by the Corps in the Longmen Mountain Tunnel, which was only 1200 meters away from the front of the enemy position. In the middle of the night, the front-line command posts of two regiments of our army, 15 and a half infantry companies, and 4 machine gun companies, totaling more than 3,500 officers and men, quietly lurked to the predetermined positions.
On the morning of 10 June, just after dawn, the enemy began to fire cold artillery aimlessly in order to conduct fire reconnaissance, and the artillery of our army also began to fire at will, in order to distract the enemy's attention. At this time,
The enemy's shells fell into the hidden units of our army, more than 30 officers and men were killed on the spot, and dozens of officers and men were seriously injured, but they insisted on not making a sound.
At this time, the forward observation post of the 180th Division of the 60th Army came to report that six or seven enemies were walking toward the lurking area, but it was not yet time to attack. Zhang Zuyu, commander of the 60th Army, immediately ordered the artillery:
One shot, at most two shots, must kill those few enemies, and if you hit too much, you will attract the attention of the enemy.
With the sound of a cannon shot, several enemies fell on the spot, and several enemies crawled back to their positions.
At 8:20 a.m., the artillery of our army opened fire and fired three consecutive rounds of rapid fire, and even a regiment of the 21st Katyusha Rocket Artillery Division took part in the artillery strike, and thousands of fire dragons flew to the enemy's positions, and the fortifications of the enemy's forward positions were destroyed one after another, and they fell into a sea of fire.
The 3,500 officers and men of our army who were lurking unexpectedly appeared in front of the enemy, caught the enemy off guard, annihilated an enemy reinforcement regiment in an hour and a half, and the troops developed in depth, and the heavy weapons discarded by the enemy were everywhere.
When the enemy was fleeing, in order to prevent our army from pursuing, it blew up six bridges on the North Han River and a large number of river crossing equipment, and in the chaos, many enemy troops fell into the river and drowned.
On June 15, Zheng Weishan continued to command his troops to carry out a large-scale offensive and prepare to retake the entire Jincheng, but received orders from the Volunteer Army Command, at which time the US army had agreed to all the conditions proposed by our army and immediately signed a negotiated agreement. Zheng Weishan had to order the troops to stop the attack.
After the war, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Three Corps, said to Zheng Weishan: "Old Zheng, have you thought about it, if the three thousand people are discovered, if this battle is lost, how will you account for it?" Zheng Weishan said: "I will not fail, I know the opponent, I believe in my own determination and plan, and I believe in Zhang Zuyu and the commanders and fighters of the 60th Army." Xu Shiyou sighed and said, "They all say that I am bold, and it seems that you are bolder than me." ”
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